the whistle-blower should be revealed because the whistle-blower gave false stories. where is the second whistle-blower >> president trump launches his harshest attacks yet at the whistle-blower, who prompted the impeachment inquir as democrats prepare to take their investigation public a shocking attack caught on camera in milwaukee. we'll hear from the immigrant who says a stranger threw acid in his face in what investigators say was a possible hate crime >>oners. oklahoma makes history, freeing hundreds of prisoners early in the largest single day commutation ever why a shipwreck that sat a

century atop niagara falls could soon plunge over the side. a sunday night shocker the ravens hand the patriots their first loss of the season in the primetime spotlight we have all the action for you "early today" starts right now good monday morning. i'm phillip mena >> i'm frances rivera. with the impeachment inquiry gathering steam on capitol hill, president trump is lashing out at the whistle-blower, calling on the person who set the investigation in motion to go public the whistle-blower's lawyer says that won't happen but in a surprise move says his client is willing to answer written questions from republicans meanwhile, house speaker nancy pelosi says to expect publo beg this month nbc's tracie potts joins us wite afrom now according to several democrats who spoke out over the it could be two or three weeks weekend and the transcripts of those private depositions that we've been hearing about are expected to come out this week but it may not be an eventful week otherwise there are 11 people lined up to testify, but most of them are

trump political appointees not expected to show up except possibly john bolton, the former national security adviser, who reportedly had issues with the president's personal attorney getting involved with ukraine policy but bolton's attorney says he may or may not show up, kind of depends on whether or not he gets a subpoena. the whistle-blower, democrats have said they don't need him to show up, but president trump is pushing to identify that person and have then obama person, was like a big anti-trump person, hated trump, and they said terrible things. the whistle-blower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call my phone call was perfecto >> meantime, the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows that now a plurality, 49%

of americans, almost half, think the president should not only be impeached, charged, he should also be removed from office. frances? >> tracie potts. thank you. more than 450 oklahoma inmates are set to be released from prison today. officials are calling it'son in u.s. history. the historic vote was approved by oklahoma's pardon and parole board. here with the ere's nbc's jay gray >> reporter: michael tangle, rita parker, craig patterson -- >> reporter: it's a roll call. of those to be released. 469 men and women behind bars in oklahoma who today will walk out of prisons across the state. >> they're going to be back with their families on thanksgiving, get back into the workforce, save the 11.9 million for oklahomans right? i mean, that's a huge deal >> reporter: a deal made when voters and the state legislature agreed that simple drug possession and non-violent property crimes under $1,000 should be classified as

misdemeanors and that offenders already serving felony sentences for those crimes should go free. >> this group of non-violent offenders are just a part of the story. by the end of this year we are anticipating we'll have about 2,000 empty beds in our system >> reporter: a system that later today will make history with the largest single-day commutation of prisoners in u.s. history jay gray, nbc news, muskogee, oklahoma all of the evacuation orders across southern california have now. lifted officials announced overnight that one of the latest major wildfires near los angeles called the maria fire is now 50% contained. president trump has made some of the first public comments about the emergency. nbc's sarah harman joins us now with more. sarah, good morning. >> reporter: frances, good morning. president trump has spoken publicly about the devastating california wildfires for the first time, hitting out at the state's governor, gavin newsom,

and sparking a tweet battle. as california recovers from devastating fires ha scorched nearly 100,000 acres and forced thousands from their homes, the president lashed out ao ll fedel funding. tweeting, "every year it's the same thing, and then he comes to the federal government for monetary help. no more. get your act together, governor." and blasted newsom's forest management "i told him from the first day we met that he must clean his forest floors. he doubled down on the south lawn >> the governor doesn't know he's like a child. he doesn't know what he's doing. every year it's always california it's rarely somebody else or someplace else >> reporter: newsom fired back, "you don't believe in climate change you are excused from this conversation koechlt the president has suggested cleaning the forest floors before suggesting specifically that they be raked. after the devastating camp fire

last year that killed 85 people the president said -- >> got to take care of the floors you know, the floors of the forests. very important >> reporter: adding he had taken advice from finland's president. >> they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem. >> reporter: the finnish president later said he didn't recall mentioning raking many of california's most destructive blazes aren't forest fires and are thought to have been started by faulty power lines and equipment. residents in fire-damaged neighborhoods reacting to the president. >> he needs to come backningnd s >> reporter: sparks of controversy as the flames di frances, california firefighters finally have the upper hand in containing this blaze. but as the evacuation orders are lift, some folks are finding they don't have a home to come back to. some of the worst damage that we've seen has been in suburban areas like here north of los

angeles. frances? >> sarah harman for us sarah, thanks. a 42-year-old milwaukee man is recovering this morning after suffering second degree burns during an alleged acid attack. the man who came from the u.s. -- came to the u.s. from peru nearly two decades ago says the incident happened after a parking dispute. police say they have arrested a 61-year-old man in connection with the incident and are considering hate crime charges here's nbc's molly hunter. >> reporter: the man on the left is 42-year-old mahud villaland it was saturday outside a restaurant in milwaukee when the the man on the right holds up a metal bottle then throwing what police believe to be battery acid on his face >> this happen a lot in america. that's not right >> reporter: police have now arrested a 61-year-old in connection with what they're callin battery villalaz says he was getting out of his truck when a man told him he couldn't park there >> i said why? you're supposed to be 30 feet

away from the stop bus and start talkt myaws, you can't invade m citizen i have my rights to. >> reporter: villalaz, who came here from peru nearly two decades ago, moved his car and the man is still there he was talking to me really angry. >> reporter: villalaz turned his face sought acid burns only the left side. >> and i start screaming because it was burning really, really, really bad >> reporter: the second degree burns landing him in the hospital for 18 hours. and through blurry vision he explained to his two young sons why he now looks like this >> i was talking with my 5-year-old aidan he was really confused, why people do that to you? there are people that willing to hurt another one for no reason just for the color of your skin or how you talk or everything. >> reporter: molly hunter, nbc

news now to the city of chicago, where a 7- trick-or-treating authorities say the young girl named gisele zamago was shot in the neck along with a 31-year-old male who is believed to be the intended target. he was shot in the hand. police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for the tragich are optimisticbout her recovery >> people should not be loose on the streets. so many kids were excited to ask for candy. it's not fair. thank god people have prayed for my girl. >> authorities say gisele has to undergo at least two surgeries but is expected to be okay grit and determination market this year's new york city marathon and it took just two hours eight minutes and 13 seconds for geoffrey kamworor of kenya to win the men's division. it is not his first time either. he also came in first back in 2017 as for the women, another kenyan, joyciline jepkosgei

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the niagara river, moving what most thought was an unmovable metal ship the boat toppled over and pivoted about 150 feet now just under 2,000 feet from its inevitable fate. >> that also gives you a sense of the power of the river here and the power of niagara falls that the water always wins so the barge really didn't have a hope of lasting forever. >> reporter: stuck there over 101 years ago. >> it broke away from its tug with two men on board. and it got stuck just short of going over the horseshoe waterfall. and they did rescue the two men in dramatic fashion. they were stuck out there overnight. but they were able to get them back on dry land and the scow has been there ever since. the rescue happened from the canadian side but it wouldn't have happened without the help of members of the u.s. coast guard. >> reporter: the symbol of bravery and cooperation on display for the nearly 12 million tourists that visit the falls each year. a piece of history that will

live on even after the ship is gone kendis gobibson, nbc news. >> that is fascinating. >> i'd never been there so i didn't know that was there >> i didn't either former president jimmy carter was back in public on sunday for the first time since his latest hospitalization he spent the morning with his congregation in his home town of plains, georgia teaching sunday school he said he's at ease with the idea of dying and believes in life after death the 95-year-old was back ahead of schedule following a fall do weeks ago that fractured his pelvis of course we wish him the best one of the toughest guys around. he gets right back out there >> you can't keep him down has a huge smile on his face a minnesota college student is in a sticky situation with krispy kreme krispy kreme hasn't been in minnesota for 11 years so you could say jason gonzalez was filling a hole in the donut market on weekends he would drive to krispy kreme in iowa, buy 100 boxes of donuts, and then drive back to the twin cities to resell them.

well, now the company has ordered him to stop. gonzalez says he was told his sales created a liability for the company. i can see how that can happen. great effort >> yeah, he's taking advantage of a market inefficiency >> that's true >> i don't know. that sounds like american capitalism to me >> people are going to need their fix somehow. thanks for waking up with us i'm frances rivera

good morning, thanks for starting your morning right here. i'm marcus washington. >> the extra hour really helped. i'm laura garcia. >> let's get to that morning commute but first the forecast. >> looks pretty good. we've had nice, warm weather throughout the weekend. we're seeing fog at the golden gate bridge, low visibility in a few spots and our temperatures are very chilly in the north bay

with mid 30s there. we'll drop down a few more degrees